What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Manager position at New City Church?
The production manager oversees all aspects of technically producing live services and events at New City locations, as well as producing video content for various congregational needs. S/he is also directly responsible for providing resources and training to production staff at each location in partnership with location pastors and staff.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as primary troubleshooting and management contact for audio, video, and lighting systems, including updating hardware, software, and equipment firmware; regularly cleaning and maintaining projectors and other equipment; loading and programming content for services and events; and managing servant leaders members involved on the Production team.
- Provide live event production direction for worship services, staff meetings, funerals, events, special services, etc.
- Supervise setup and teardown of event production components.
- Research and implement new & innovative ways to improve production at New City.
- Work with Service Programming & Media Director to produce and adhere to an annual production budget.
- Manage and oversee operation of all production equipment in distributed systems at New City locations.
- Train staff and develop process guides for how to execute basic production tasks.
- Fill in as production director at various locations on Sundays, including and not limited to: Producing, FOH sound, Video Direction and other roles when necessary.
- Manage weekend service media production in ProPresenter.
- Create quality Video content in conjunction with Service Programming & Media Director, and the communications team.
- Execute other responsibilities as assigned by Service Programming & Media Director.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
Education and Experience
- Able to self-manage and maintain attention to detail.
- Passionate about working collaboratively with a team, while maintaining a self starting posture.
- Operate well in a coaching environment where the expectation is personal growth.
- Committed to the purpose and values of New City Church.
- Heart for producing excellent, distraction-free live worship services and events.
- Able to provide audio/visual/lighting technological guidance within the organization.
- Dedicated to learning, problem solving, and mastering new technologies.
- Comfortable working with leaders across organization to exchange information, present new approaches, and to discuss equipment/system changes.
- Able to manage calendar of events, task list, and own work schedule without supervision.
- Willing to work nontraditional hours on nights and weekends (especially Sundays).
- Proficient in most of the following: live event production, FOH audio, live video production, ProPresenter, studio and onsite video production and editing.
Proficiencies
- Proficient understanding of all live/studio audio fundamentals (gain staging, signal flow, compression, saturation, etc.)
- Experience with digital audio consoles (preferably some experience with Allen & Heath consoles).
- Proficient understanding of lighting principles for live and in studio/on location applications.
- Fundamental understanding of modern digital video cameras and LOG workflow.
- Video/Audio editing (preferably some experience in Davinci Resolve)
- Understanding of video distribution and streaming systems
- Ability to troubleshoot efficiently, and effectively
Spiritual Requirements:
- Must be a professing Christian.
- Personal alignment to the Statement of Faith of the Evangelical Free Church in America.